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Page 54 of 78 2007 Utah L. Rev. 861, *936 intended to pass a law establishing "fair play for crime victims, meaningful participation of crime victims in the justice system, protection against a government that would take from a crime victim the dignity of due process ... ." 4°...

…ry Committee's rationale for this change was to "implement[] the victim's "right to be treated with fairness’ under the Crime Victims' Rights Act." °?’ But if a change to the relatively obscure Rule 18 is appropriate in light of the victim's right to fairness, why aren't changes...

… the Advisory Committee's standard approach, but there are particularly strong reasons for not leaving clarification of crime victims' rules to case-by-case litigation. The most significant problem is that such litigation will occur only in fits and starts. Unlike the government...

…an attorney to press her claims, a victim may be unable to obtain a "fair and just" adjudicative process. *!4 Moreover, crime victim representation appears to be a prime example of a situation where "neither the private marketplace nor public or charitable efforts provide indigen...

…t rity conspiral with Epstein and his lawyers to circumvent public scrutiny and deceive his victims in violation of the Crime Victims' Rights Act inclehl7trigLliferibmtrc:O7aineY forurAcced- ings and t. opportunity to appar at sentencing. "As soon as that deal was signed. they si...

AUTHENTICATED US, GOVERNMENT, INFORMATION, GPO, 54006 Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 168/Tuesday, August 30, 2011/Rules and Regulations NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 29 CFR Part 104 RIN 3142-AA07 Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act AGENCY...

96 CASSELL ET AL. [Vol. 104 reasonable efforts to notify identified victims of, and consider victims’ views about, prospective plea negotiations, even prior to the filing of a charging instrument with the court.”?°° The Department also noted that it provided extensive pre-charg...

54018 Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 168/Tuesday, August 30, 2011/Rules and Regulations Some comments argue that the Board’s notice posting rule does not go far enough to effectuate the NLRA. One labor attorney argues that the Board should require annual trainings for supervisor...

2014] CRIME VICTIMS’ RIGHTS 87 as environmental crimes investigators in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).'° This coverage provision would seem to answer any lingering question about whether the CVRA applies before charging. In directing that federal employees engaged i...

… legislative purpose in enacting the law in question.” As discussed above,’ one important goal of the CVRA was to keep crime victims informed about any developments in the criminal justice process. But the need to be informed does not begin with the filing of a formal criminal c...

…tims to assert their rights, a flaw in the earlier enactment. *” The act provides that rights can be "asserted" by "the crime victim or the crime victim's lawful representative, and the attorney for the Government." °° The victim (or the government) may appeal any denial of a vic...

86 CASSELL ET AL. [Vol. 104 right.'°° The reason for adopting such a broad right was that “[t]oo often victims of crime experience a secondary victimization at the hands of the criminal justice system. This provision is intended to direct Government agencies and employees, wheth...

Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 168/Tuesday, August 30, 2011/Rules and Regulations 54019 The proposed Appendix to Subpart A included Board contact information and basic enforcement procedures to enable employees to learn more about their NLRA rights and how to enforce them. Thus,...

2228. Rep, No. 95-114, at 7. *3 Section 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act, 15 US.C. § 78m(b)(2)(B). *4 Section 13(b)(7) of the Exchange Act, 15 U.S.C. § 78m(b)(7). 225 See Complaint, SEC v. Siemens AG, supra note 48; Criminal Information, United States v. Siemens AG, supra note 4...

… would not be appropriate for the prosecutor to fail to notify a court of the victim's views. Whenever an unrepresented crime victim objects to transferring a case, prosecutors, as officers of the court, have a duty to pass that objection along to the court as relevant [*923] inf...